Detecting radio noise storms from Jupiter

[AtomicWrangler86]

Jupiter sounds like a spasm of digital tones, ocean waves, and whistles.

[RadioflyerGeri]

@AtomicWrangler86 You hear "whistles" if you slow down the S-bursts by a hundred times or more. They drop in frequency as a function of time so if you have a high resolution spectrogram and extremely powerful computer, you might be able to visualize it. You should check out the official Jupiter radio noise storm sound samples at the RadioJove website. For calibrating my system I scanned the Galactic Equator and/or the Orion area to measure background noise temperatures.

[RadioflyerGeri]

@RadioflyerGeri a small correction for those who know what I am talking about: Galactic Center (Sagittarius area) and Galactic Equator (Orion area). A highly averaged total power level diagram of 20 MHz observations reveals both quite nicely although needs good data at least three-four times throughout a year!

[AtomicWrangler86]

It was just static. I've heard radiowaves from Jupiter and it sounds more digital. What the crap is this? The music also sounds like I'm shopping in a department store.

[RadioflyerGeri]

@AtomicWrangler86 It was a Jovian radio storm since I had confirmation from 2 different observatories in France. Jupiter sounds digital? Probably you are the one who was listening to your neighbor's washing machine, or left your space-age screensaver on but not me :P Regarding the music: what's your problem with shopping in a department store? :-)

[AtomicWrangler86]

@RadioflyerGeri I've heard it with my own ears before through my radio on a clear night out in the Mojave desert. Not a lot of interference out there. I've heard it multiple times before and have had it confirmed from through my physics/astronomy professor when I was in college. You weren't getting signals from Jupiter's magnetosphere, that I know. Look up Jupiter radio Noises on youtube. Click the video with the old woman. That is how Jupiter sounds through a radio.

[RadioflyerGeri]

@AtomicWrangler86 Look: as I told you I had EXACT CONFIRMATON from 2 different observatories. S-bursts during a Jovian Io-B storm do sound like popcorn in a microwave oven. What type of equipment did you use? I used the RadioJOVE 1.1 receiver (SSB/CW modulation) with a 4 element directional (yagi) and made hundreds of succesful observations during 2 years! My local conditions were perfect, no system interference, no local interference (winter time, zero thunderstorm activity).

[RadioflyerGeri]

@AtomicWrangler86 If you listened to Jupiter you can surely give me these information for sure: what was your observing frequency? What modulation did you use? What was your antenna's orientation relative to Jupiter? What type of antenna did you use? How much gain did you have? What was your system noise temperature? What was the background radiation noise temp compared to your system noise temp? What was Jupiter's position above your sky (lets say in alt/az, in degrees)?

[RadioflyerGeri]

@AtomicWrangler86 That video is WRONG! You will never be able to hear Jupiter with your car radio, especially not at low frequencies shown in the video. I think you simply have no idea what you are talking about and I don't know why I waste my time trying to prove what I don't need at all!

[AtomicWrangler86]

@RadioflyerGeri You were probably just picking up background radio static, or perhaps the static was coming from your equipment.

[RadioflyerGeri]

@AtomicWrangler86 Probably not. I made great efforts to operate my system reliably. You can check the RadioJOVE data archive at NASA's RadioJove Project website for detailed information on my observations.

[pyxel]

Your site seems to be down, please send me a message when it's up - thank you.

[RadioflyerGeri]

Hello Pyxel! I know, I couldn't pay the fees so it's down, maybe also permanently deleted :( I am not sure if it will ever be back.

[forskingslogen]

Awesome! And a great video. But.. what is it between you and Jupiter ;-)

[VodkaFanClub]

Thank you :) There's a radio telescope between us :) I really had a great time with Jupiter!

[Bicsak84]

Ez is eszméletlen!! Nemtudom, hogy volt e már részed távcsövön keresztül látni a Jupitert?! Nekem elég sokszor van rá lehetőségem. Az kb ugyan ilyen fenomenális érzés, ha még nem volt szerencséd, akkor ne hagyd ki, és nézd meg élőben!!

[raypsi]

Real fine business! My first attempt I heard activity on 3/23/2008 at 1051utc thru 1157utc, from Jupiter. I used a Kenwood ts850sat transceiver, and Dr. Beverage's long wire antenna tuned to 20.1Mhz. With low loss ladder line instead of coax cable, I was lucky though, the directivity of my antenna pointed right at Jupiter at that time of the morning. A long wire, mine is 5 wavelengths long has lot's of gain over a double dipole and is comparable to a beam. Good listening.

[HA5TI]

Szia Gergely!

Nagyszerű munka, gratulálok!  73 DX HA5TI Pista

[RadioflyerGeri]

Koszonom szepen!

[bishopvideo]

This was a very great vid... I hope U will continue this research.. only 4 years to go.. :>

[castlereaghobs]

what a bummer Gary - hope things can improve for you this is awesome - Donna from Australia

[truemartian]

Great little observatory you had there Gary. Miss your observation reports. --Jason

[RadioflyerGeri]

Thank you Jason! I miss sharing results with you guys and those at NASA too :) I am trying my best to be back in action. No need to worry though, Jupiter will not be very suitable for higher latitude observers for a few years, but then I will get it with a 6 element crossed yagi :)